Tournament: Longhorn | Round: 2 | Opponent: Pranav Medikonduru | Judge: Breigh Plat
Our ability to make progressive change relies on the ability for labor to organize a collective recomposition of society. Information is at the root of recomposition and is either harnessed by workers or employed against them by Semiocapitalism
Berardi 11 (Franco Berardi, Italian philosopher and activist) “After the Future,” 2011, https://libcom.org/files/AfterFuture.pdf ZS
I define recombination is the technical form of the labor process in the
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if they are able to share the same refrain, as Guattari would say
Digitalized labor requires uniform compliance with Semiocapitalist structures. Workers are reduced to an easily replaceable unit of time; their dehumanization and lack of commonality renders organization, and therefore recombination, impossible
Berardi 11 (Franco Berardi, Italian philosopher and activist) “After the Future,” 2011, https://libcom.org/files/AfterFuture.pdf ZS
Precarity refers not only to the deregulation of the labor market and the fragmentation of
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implies a technological mutation but also a psychic mutation of the living mind.
The structure of Semiocapitalism drives all action and prevents recomposition. Society’s inability to recompose means that people cannot be actors; they don’t have the ability to make change
Berardi 11 (Franco Berardi, Italian philosopher and activist) “After the Future,” 2011, https://libcom.org/files/AfterFuture.pdf ZS
I speak of agency, of a collective actor, of singularity in the Guattarian
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but is a kind of unavoidable catastrophe that we cannot oppose in any way
Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best resists semiocapitalism. Prefer for three reasons:
1) Capitalist digitilization skews our concept of time and renders previous conceptions of progressive change meaningless. The only coherent evaluation of the past or the future must be first achieved through dismantling semiocapitalism
Berardi 11 (Franco Berardi, Italian philosopher and activist) “After the Future,”, 2011, https://libcom.org/files/AfterFuture.pdf ZS
My point of view has been shaped by two centuries of progressive enlightened history:
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oriented civilization because the limits of human knowability and controllability have been surpassed.
2) Liberal democracy has failed- any conception of change must be spearheaded with combatting semiocapitalism; dismantling semiocapitalism is a prerequisite to making change
Berardi 09 (Franco Berardi, Italian philosopher and activist) “Precarious Rhapsody”, 2015, https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/PrecariousRhapsodyWeb.pdf ZS
It’s a strange word, that with which we identify the ideology prevalent in the
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is a continuous proximity in time that info-labor no longer allows.
3) Semiocapitalism has destroyed the education system and pedagogical spaces like debate are uniquely equipped to combatting semiocapitalism’s grasp on learning and information. Behind all published works is a profit motive.
Carlin and Wallin 14 (Matthew Carlin, Jason Wallin) “Deleuze and Guattari, Politics and Education,” 2014, http://library.lol/main/B95AF4DD96021A8707306FC61F68FF66 ZS
Education is under attack. The privatization of the educational system has been one of
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institution for the re-activation of autonomy of knowledge from economic dogma.
Contention
I affirm the resolution Resolved: a just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike. A just government is definitionally one that is not semiocapitalist, and affording workers an unconditional right to strike is crucial to allow for any form of recombination of society
History proves- strong labor unions in the 20th century were the forefront of change and resistance to oppressive forces. In our current semiocapitalist economy, recognizing the unconditional right of strike rectifies this difference and puts power back in the hands of workers
Berardi 09 (Franco Berardi, Italian philosopher and activist) “Precarious Rhapsody”, 2015, https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/PrecariousRhapsodyWeb.pdf ZS
In the 1970s, the energy crisis, the consequent economic recession and finally the
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phone calls the workers to reconnect their abstract time to the reticular flux.